Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM)

This guide to the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt starts with the director's one-word speech at its 2025 reopening, then explains what the courtyard's strange silhouette actually is: a plain, child-drawn house of pillars that architect Oswald Mathias Ungers raised inside a gutted nineteenth-century villa in 1979. From there it moves through the permanent collection's own starting point, a hut of branches and mud built by someone whose name nobody kept. Look up from the courtyard floor to see the second house rise through all three stories of the old villa's shell.